Brainstep firmware update

How to update Brainstep

How to see the current firmware version:

Go to Menu -> Misc -> About

Brainstep can be easily updated:

  1. Download the firmware .zip file
  2. Remove Brainstep’s SD card and put it in your computer’s card reader
  3. Copy the file “Brnstep.ebi” from the zip to the SD card
  4. Put the SD card back into Brainstep
  5. Hold SHIFT while turning on your case / plugging in Brainstep
  6. The bootloader will start and update Brainstep’s firmware. After a few seconds, the new firmware is installed and will start automatically.

Brainstep Firmare 1.15 — 19.12.2024
– FEATURE: option to allow MIDI output when receiving MIDI (see midi out menu)
– BUGFIX: accent and track config menu showed wrong page when parameter controlled over MIDI
– BUGFIX: Using USB in device mode would sometimes not work properly.
– BUGFIX: tracks in PLAY mode with play overdub, were not used as part of a polyphonic midi group

Brainstep Firmare 1.14 — 27.11.2024
– BUGFIX: When gate probability was set to anyhting but 100%, it would not send a note via MIDI
– BUGFIX: A track was not properly put back into a MIDI input group when exiting PLAY mode
– BUGFIX: If a previsouly loaded scale was not based on an octave, resetting to 12 tet would create 12 equal-distance notes based on the previous scale.

Brainstep Firmare 1.13 — 8.11.2024
– BUGFIX: When a track is a drum track, controlling the B accent amount via velocity does now not trigger the ‘slow’ modifier,
– BUGFIX: Recording on a drum track does now not trigger modifiers
– BUGFIX: Midi CC swing amount now working
– BUGFIX: Display would sometimes freeze when exiting the config menu

Brainstep Firmare 1.12 — 22.10.2024
– FEATURE: Added overdub mode for sequencer (see updated user manual)
– FEATURE: Now shows glide and A/B gain overlay when CC is received
– FEATURE: Nicer looking track config

Brainstep Firmare 1.11 — 1.10.2024
– BUGFIX: in the editor, if the gate probability was ‘low’, entering a new note would set a rest instead of the note.
– FEATURE: file browser now remembers paths for sets, scales and samples seperately
– BUGFIX: shifting euclidian sequence would also transpose the arp

Brainstep Firmare 1.10 — 28.9.2024
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